If anybody tries to salvage a story out of the wife of a Vice Presidential candidate, you're grasping at straws. I don't even think Todd Palin got any play outside of those five minutes when everyone chuckled at the thought of a "First Dude."

Holy farking awkward. I honestly feel bad for the Ryan family on this one. Honestly, I see this one ripe for liberal abuse and I sure hope they take the high road and let her go, so long as she keeps herself out of the campaign. Nothing wrong with standing up with your spouse and supporting them, even if you do not agree with them.

lennavan:Holy farking awkward. I honestly feel bad for the Ryan family on this one. Honestly, I see this one ripe for liberal abuse and I sure hope they take the high road and let her go, so long as she keeps herself out of the campaign. Nothing wrong with standing up with your spouse and supporting them, even if you do not agree with them.

And nothing good can come from trying to involve her. I assume actual politicians and campaigns will avoid her like the plague. Not so much on the internet, but we know how the internet is.

I pretty much knew everything I needed to know about Paul Ryan when they started trotting out local reaction interviews. Nice folks from Wisconsin, relatively well off, blessed in all regards. They like the Ryans, because their local folks and they share the same ideals in that they don't think it is right for the government to steal taxes from hard working folks and give it away to people who are lazy. Period. Full stop. These must be the kind of "ideas" people come up with when they have no other care in the world. No actual problems to occupy their minds. Strictly concerned with what other people are doing, with their money, or their uterus/anus.

LasersHurt:lennavan: Holy farking awkward. I honestly feel bad for the Ryan family on this one. Honestly, I see this one ripe for liberal abuse and I sure hope they take the high road and let her go, so long as she keeps herself out of the campaign. Nothing wrong with standing up with your spouse and supporting them, even if you do not agree with them.

And nothing good can come from trying to involve her. I assume actual politicians and campaigns will avoid her like the plague. Not so much on the internet, but we know how the internet is.

karmaceutical:I pretty much knew everything I needed to know about Paul Ryan when they started trotting out local reaction interviews. Nice folks from Wisconsin, relatively well off, blessed in all regards. They like the Ryans, because their local folks and they share the same ideals in that they don't think it is right for the government to steal taxes from hard working folks and give it away to people who are lazy.

What would you bet those same people would see Paul Ryan's ex as "lazy?"

EyeballKid:karmaceutical: I pretty much knew everything I needed to know about Paul Ryan when they started trotting out local reaction interviews. Nice folks from Wisconsin, relatively well off, blessed in all regards. They like the Ryans, because their local folks and they share the same ideals in that they don't think it is right for the government to steal taxes from hard working folks and give it away to people who are lazy.

What would you bet those same people would see Paul Ryan's ex as "lazy?"

The Great EZE:I had to hover over the link to make sure it was Paul Ryan's wife.

If anybody tries to salvage a story out of the wife of a Vice Presidential candidate, you're grasping at straws. I don't even think Todd Palin got any play outside of those five minutes when everyone chuckled at the thought of a "First Dude."

I seem to remember there being some talk of him being part of a secessionist movement

Summoner101:The Great EZE: I had to hover over the link to make sure it was Paul Ryan's wife.

If anybody tries to salvage a story out of the wife of a Vice Presidential candidate, you're grasping at straws. I don't even think Todd Palin got any play outside of those five minutes when everyone chuckled at the thought of a "First Dude."

I seem to remember there being some talk of him being part of a secessionist movement

Right. I honestly forgot about that. Pretty sure that had as much traction as "Troopergate" (i.e. a day at best).

...now that I think about it the Palins got off on a lot all things considered. If they'd just stay down after the election they probably wouldn't still be a punchline in 2012. But I digress.

The Great EZE:I had to hover over the link to make sure it was Paul Ryan's wife.

If anybody tries to salvage a story out of the wife of a Vice Presidential candidate, you're grasping at straws. I don't even think Todd Palin got any play outside of those five minutes when everyone chuckled at the thought of a "First Dude."

actually no. he was very involved in an organization dedicated to the secession of Alaska. It was covered thoroughly (for a couple days like this will be)

Lucky LaRue:Is this the thread where we say mean and hurtful things about Paul Ryan's wife?

I won't. I think there's a chance we might be feeling sorry for her á la Elizabeth Edwards some time in the next three decades. Consider this:

• According to tfa he's dated aerobics bunnies at his gym before he got married. Plural. Yes, we all would do that if we could, but this demonstrates that a.) he likes the pretty ladies and b.) he likes a variety of pretty ladies. I'll make the speculative leap and suggest here that he also c.) likes the status that comes with being known as a serial aerobics bunny farker.

• He's a man with money inherited and married-into and earned. He also has power and status and celebrity. Enough women are attracted to such things that, whether he desires extramarital partners or not, willing women must already be pestering him and they'll continue to do this for another decade or two.

• He's been married for 12 years.

Not an accusation or prediction on my part, just noting here that money/power/status is the biggest predictor of male marital infidelity.

He may very well be an unusually loving, devoted, 100% monogamous husband. For his wife's sake I hope he is. But due to who and what he is he'll see more temptation than 99.99% of American men, so we'll probably know exactly how good a man he is 30 years from now.

/yeah, we already know that when it comes to public policy he's a moron. Digressing's fun.

Eh. Whatever. Spouses of VPs and VP candidates only get attention if they do something stupid. Only attention I think Todd Palin got was his membership in a secessionist party, and that got very little attention on its own.

About all you can possibly get from here would be looking at Ryan's voting record, and see if he favors insurance and pharmaceuticals (he's Republican, of course he does), and that would call him out for possible conflict of interest, not his wife. I still see nothing coming out about this.

Unless right-wing sites pick up on this article or one like it and blow it all out of proportion. Oh, who am I kidding. That's exactly what is going to happen.